In the laupe, or the loup?

The laupe: I have no clue how to pronounce this word — lawp? lowp? lope? low-pay? — but I know a laupe when I see one.

Are you a laupe? Take the test and find out. You might be a laupe without even knowing it. In fact, if you are reading these words, you are almost certainly a laupe. And if you don’t think so, you are just in denial.

Speaking of which, sort of, when I was a kid I had a book about the Loup Garou of the Forest. I’m about gearing up for my annual viewing of the great French — but not French in any serious way ! — movie Brotherhood of the Wolf. If you love this movie, you are both laupe and loup garou. But you don’t have to live inside the Loop.

Oh, man, I miss 24 already. As Matty B observes, this is very Mary Mapes: the clock.